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Name: Jon Newey,editor and publisher, Jazzwise
Comment: Sound and Music was a small record store that ran in Streatham next to Streatham Hill Station from 1965 to 1970ish. It was run by a classical music journalist, Robert Leslie. I worked as a Saturday jobber there for a few months in 1966/67. They sold a lot of jazz too and were one of the first to sell Freak Out! by the Mothers Of Invention. A new vinyl store is about to open in the same space, called Undercover.
​(2022)

Dave Harwood
27 Jan 2025 at 11:09
I found this classified advert on page 14 of the 'Melody Maker' dated January 7th 1967:
“RECORDS CHEAPER. Write or phone for free list. LPs wanted for cash. SOUND AND MUSIC, 11 Sternhold Avenue, S.W.2. TUL 0976.”
Dave Harwood
02 Feb 2025 at 11:00
Undercover Records was open at 9 Sternhold Avenue, Streatham Hill (next door to where Sound and Music was located) in 2015 and lasted until 2021, according to Google Street View.
I also found an entry on 'All In London' (with a photo of the shop front) at this link:
https://www.allinlondon.co.uk/directory/music-shops/193390-undercover-records
Mark Griffiths
08 Feb 2025 at 03:34
There was another shop along this parade in 1978 - I can be precise about that as I bought a copy of Patti Smith's 'Because The Night' there from the very grumpy individual behind the counter. To my recollection, it didn't last long, but that didn't bother me as I got most of my new vinyl from Cloakes.

I see numbers 5-11 Sternhold Avenue, including the Undercover shop which had clearly recently closed, were auctioned by Savills in 2021. No idea what they are now, but clear from the listing that all the units were in dire need of modernisation and repair.

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